Lifestyle

#EndSARS Anniversary: Youths Demand Unconditional Release Of 2020 Protesters

By Web News 553

Participants of the #EndSARS Remembrance protest in Ibadan have demanded justice and unconditional release of all detained human rights activists in the country.

Addressing members of the public at Ojoo, some of the protesting youths including Yusuff Ajikobi said Nigerians human rights promoters and the victims of the 2020 #EndSARS protest had been denied justice.

While lamenting the incessant killings and human rights violation in the country, the youths said the federal government should guarrantee the freedom of the judiciary and desist from paying lip service to security matters.

They maintained that arrested protesters during the 2020 #EndSARS protests currently in detention should be released unconditionally.

Speaking on the protest, some residents of Ibadan, including Miss Debora Akanmu, Mrs. Adebambo Johnson, and Mr. Lekan Odewale said there was no need for the protest in view of the current security challenges affecting the country.

They maintained that the aggrieved youths should be optimistic that the panel set up to look into the fallout of the 2020 #EndSARS protest would dispense justice.

Radio Nigeria observed that the protest which commenced in the early hours on Wednesday ran through Iwo Road, Agodi Gate, Secretariat and terminated at Ojoo area of Ibadan.

Our correspondent also reports that aside placards carried by the protesters alongside solidarity songs that were chanted, security personnel were on ground to ensure that the protest was not hijacked.

Rotimi Famakin

Crime

Police Arrest, Journalist, #EndSARS Protesters, In Osogbo

By Web News 591

Policemen in Osogbo, the Osun State capital have dispersed youths marking the one year anniversary of the #EndSARS protests.

They also arrested a journalist, Sikiru Obarayese, the correspondent of Daily Post in Osogbo, at Old Garage.

Other journalists covering the protest ran from the scene to prevent arrest by the police operatives.

There was a low turnout as youths stormed streets bearing placards and banners as well as chanting anti-government songs.

The protesters marched from the Ita-Olokan area through to Oja-Oba, Station road, post office, old-garage and Oke-Fia.

The police interjected the protesters at Oke-Fia and arrested some of them.

Adenitan Akinola

Lifestyle

#EndSARS Anniversary: Ondo Youths Hold Procession In Akure

By Web News 662

Nigerian youths on Wednesday trooped to the streets of the Ondo State capital of Akure to hold peaceful procession to mark the first memorial anniversary of the #EndSARS protest.

In Akure, business and normal official activities in places like Oyemekun road, Oja Oba to Alagbaka area continued undisrupted even as security operatives provided protection for the youths who were marking the first anniversary of the #EndSARS protest.

The protesters matched from Old Garage in Akure and ended the #EndSARS Remembrance Day at the Ondo State Police Headquarters on Igbatoro Road where the Ondo State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Bolaji Salami addressed them and attributed the delay in the implementation of the panel report on the last year’s protest to paucity of funds on the part of the Ondo State government. 

Mr. Salami promised to deliver the demands of the #EndSARS protesters to Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu.

Some residents who spoke with our reporter on the #EndSARS anniversary are of the opinion that nothing had really changed as the injustice that was the main reason for the protest still existed in the society.

Leke Adegbite